37-522: The Ahmedabad Vadodara Expressway or Mahatma Gandhi Expressway or National Expressway 1 is an expressway connecting the cities of Ahmedabad and Vadodara in the state of Gujarat , India. The 93.1 km (57.8 mi) long expressway reduces the travel time between the two cities from two and a half hours to an hour. It was declared as National Expressway 1 in 1986. The expressway has 2 lanes each side. The expressway opened in 2004. It has two exit loops at Nadiad / Kheda and Anand . In 2009,
74-463: A city or between two cities. These expressways direct heavy traffic to the outskirts freeing city roads of traffic. This also allows outside traffic to directly pass the city instead of going through it further limiting traffic within a city. Note: AC = Access-Controlled Expressway , GS = Grade Separated Expressway , TE = Tolled Elevated Expressway. Part of NH 19 . 6.21 mi * Ready to inaugurate Total length listed in this table
111-433: A more equal distribution of goods, especially to rural areas . These expressways are not part of National Expressways but may be operated by state authority or national authority. Note: AC = Access-Controlled Expressway , GS = Grade Separated Expressway , TE = Tolled Elevated Expressway. Bypass Expressways to bypass city traffic such as ring roads , bypass , freeways and elevated roads exist entirely within
148-470: A new spur named Vadodara–Ankleshwar Expressway is being created for better connectivity in Gujarat. It will also connect to Ahmedabad–Vadodara Expressway and at Ahmedabad it will connect to Ahmedabad–Dholera Expressway . Maharashtra: It will be connected with Mumbai–Nagpur Expressway (near Mumbai and Akola) and Mumbai–Pune Expressway (near Mumbai). The expressway will have multiple side spurs in
185-491: A sustainable and self-liquidating approach to raise finances. The toll on the projects housed in SPV shall be collected by NHAI and SPV shall get the annuity payments without any construction and tolling risks. On 1 March 2021, DME Development Limited received the highest 'AAA' credit ratings from CRISIL , Care Ratings and India Ratings . The entire 1,350 km long Delhi–Mumbai Expressway has been divided into 4 sections with
222-510: A target of constructing 83,677 km of new highways over the next five years, was started in 2017 as well as conversion of 4 lane highways into 6 lane Brownfield expressways & some state highways into NH/NE. Phase I of the Bharatmala project involves the construction of 34,800 km of highways (including the remaining projects under NHDP) at an estimated cost of ₹ 5.35 lakh crore by 2021–22. Brownfield National Highway Project
259-529: A total of 52 construction packages/tenders, where the length of each package is between 8 km to 46 km. The NHAI has awarded the construction work in 52 packages to around 20 construction companies. Around 15,000 hectares of land has been acquired for this project. The list of contractors is as follows: Note: As of 11 November 2021, Tender for 65 km length is pending i.e. for 4 packages in Maharashtra ( Virar – JNPT section). The project
296-414: Is 11,127.69 km (6,914.43 mi). (Phase 1- Ludhiana to Bathinda) (439 mi) Delhi%E2%80%93Mumbai Expressway The Delhi–Mumbai Expressway is a 1,350 km long, 8- lane wide (expandable to 12-lane) under-construction (partially operational) access-controlled expressway connecting India's national capital New Delhi to its financial capital Mumbai . The foundation stone for
333-465: Is a plan to develop a stretch of this expressway as an e-highway ( electric highway ) where trucks and buses can run at a speed of 120 km/hour which will bring down the logistics cost by 70% as heavy vehicles will run on electricity instead of diesel . National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has started the construction of this project, and is expected to be completed by March 2022. It will also have 4 dedicated lanes for electric vehicles in
370-772: Is a vital backbone of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor. At the Delhi end, the Delhi–Mumbai-Delhi Expressway has two main entry/exit points: DND Flyway , Maharani Bagh in Delhi and Alipur village, north of Sohna in Haryana . Traffic coming from both ends and moving towards Vadodara / Mumbai will merge at the double trumpet interchange with KMP Expressway at Khalilpur village ( Nuh district ) of Haryana. The greenfield alignment
407-595: Is also a part of the leopard corridor of NCR . Additional wildlife crossings are needed at several locations, such as on the alignment near Faridabad (alignment near Nimot-Kot-Dhouj forested hills), hills east of Bhadas (hill from Devla Nagli to Rithat to Khanpur Ghati), hills near Firozpur Jhirka (crossings near Kheri Kalan , Regarh, Bhakro Ji, Bas Burja), Naugaon , Dohli, near Alwar and Sariska (Ghata-Chirawanda-Kalakha), Nangal Todiyal, Bandikui, Dausa, Chhateda, etc. Delhi–Haryana-UP: The Delhi–Mumbai Expressway will be directly connected with various other expressways like
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#1732801322617444-463: Is an example of a new 12-lane approach with initial 8-lane construction. Bharatmala is an ecosystem of road development which includes tunnels, bridges, elevated corridors, flyovers, overpass, interchanges, bypasses, ring roads etc. to provide shortest & optimized connectivity to multiple places, it is a centrally-sponsored and funded road and highways project of the Government of India with
481-542: Is as follows: The National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) has formed a special-purpose vehicle (SPV) to finance the construction and operation of the Delhi–Mumbai Expressway. The SPV has been registered on 29 August 2020 by the name of DME Development Limited (DMEDL) and it will be wholly owned by the NHAI. By floating SPV specific to a corridor, NHAI is aiming at diversifying its resource base to develop
518-490: Is being executed in 52 packages, out of which 31 are under Engineering, Procurement and Construction model or EPC projects (Sohna–Vadodara segment) while the remaining 21 are Hybrid Annuity Model or HAM projects. The HAM Model is a hybrid or mixture of EPC Model and BOT Model in which the Government of India will pay 40% of the project cost in trenches linked to milestones, while the balance 60% cost will be arranged by
555-618: Is overcrowding at Ranthambore, and tigers have migrated to other sanctuaries and reserves via the Aravalli wildlife corridor, for example, at least 3 tigers have migrated out of Ranthambore to Ramgarh since 2013. Wildlife experts have expressed concerns as there are not sufficient wildlife crossings on this very wide 8-lane expressway, especially between Sariska and Ranthambore reserves as well as Sariska reserve and leopard habitat forests of Delhi-Gurugram-Faridabad-Nuh in Delhi NCR . This area
592-452: Is the widening/re-development of existing National Highways. The upgradation of highway is a Brownfield Expressway Project which has high traffic demand and is a part of both rural and urban setup. The upgradation is carried from 4 Lane to 6 Lane on EPC mode such as NH-709A . 43,000 km state highways have been converted to National Highways in last 8 years. The majority of the investment required for constructing expressways comes from
629-571: The Delhi–Mumbai Expressway will be the longest expressway in India. It is expected to be completed by the end of 2025. Mumbai–Pune Expressway is the first 6-lane operational expressway in India started in 2002. Expressways follow standards set by Indian Roads Congress and Bureau of Indian Standards . Currently, the longest expressway in India is the partially-opened Delhi–Mumbai Expressway (Phase-III) at 935 km (581 mi), which
666-882: The Delhi–Noida Direct Flyway (DND Flyway) in Delhi, Western Peripheral Expressway (which will connect it to the Delhi–Katra Expressway ) in Haryana. It will also connect to the Trans-Haryana Expressway via the 86.5 km long 6-lane access-controlled greenfield Paniyala–Barodameo Expressway (Paniyala (south of Narnaul ) to Mator , Alwar and Barodameo ). Rajasthan–MP–Maharashtra–Telangana: Kota–Indore Expressway (136 km) will connect it to Hyderabad–Indore Expressway (via Nanded Akola – Omkareshwar Indore ), which will intersect Mumbai–Nagpur Expressway at Akola . Gujarat: In Gujarat,
703-497: The Government of Gujarat asked the Government of India to extend the expressway to Mumbai . In 2011, IRB Infra won a bid to upgrade the expressway from four lanes to six lanes with service lanes and collect toll. In 2013, it was announced that IRB Infra, which was also upgrading the stretch of the National Highway connecting Ahmedabad and Vadodara as part of the deal, would not collect toll till construction work
740-541: The National Highways Authority of India announced plans to upgrade the expressway to six lanes. Two-wheeler vehicles of all kinds are forbidden on the expressway. The expressway is fenced to prevent the entry of two wheelers and cattle, along with several underpasses and overbridges to allow vehicles to cross over. The expressway was built at a cost of ₹ 475 crore and inaugurated by the then Prime Minister of India , Atal Bihari Vajpayee . In 2009,
777-854: The Sohna Elevated Corridor , Delhi to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port in Maharashtra via Dausa , Kota , Ratlam , Vadodara and Surat . It passes through the Union territory of Delhi (12 km) and the states of Haryana (129 km), Rajasthan (373 km), Madhya Pradesh (244 km), Gujarat (426 km) and Maharashtra (171 km). The main length of the expressway is from Sohna to Virar only i.e. 1,198 km . Additionally, it has two spurs: DND–Faridabad–KMP (59 km) and Virar – JNPT (92 km), which increases its length to 1,350 km . Initially,
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#1732801322617814-484: The central government . Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra are the only states which are investing in building expressways through dedicated expressway corporations. The National Highways Authority of India operating under the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways will be in-charge of the construction and maintenance of expressways. The National Highways Development Project by the government of India aims to expand
851-566: The Delhi–Mumbai Expressway are as follows. The expressway will have Wayside Amenities at 93 places having facilities like ATM , hotels, retail shops, food courts, charging stations for electric vehicles and fuel stations . It will also be the first expressway in India to have helipads and fully equipped trauma centers at every 100 km for accident victims. On 25 March 2021, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said in Lok Sabha that there
888-481: The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways. operational under construction planned List of list of expressways by state (including State and National expressways). State Expressways are funded by State/Central Government to connect areas within the state. These expressways reduce travel time, allowing for more efficient travel and fuel savings. This also allows for
925-473: The city/town/village traffic and these highways are designed for speed of 100 km/h. Some roads are not access-controlled expressways but are still named expressways, such as the Bagodara–Tarapur Expressway , Biju Expressway , these are actually state highways that are not declared by the central government as an Expressway, hence not an Expressway or National Highway. Under construction,
962-429: The contractors. In Gujarat , contractor Patel Infrastructure created a world record by laying Pavement quality concrete (PQC) in 2.58 km length in 4- lane width (4x2.58 =10.32 lane km) within 24 hours. The work of laying PQC started on 1 February 2021 at 8 am and ended the next day at 8 am. An 18.75 metre wide German-made Wirtgen concrete paving machine was used in this stretch. The various special features of
999-433: The country's current expressway network and plans to add an additional 18,637 km of greenfield expressways by 2025 apart from building 4 lane greenfield national highways of 50,000 km length. Currently NHDP Phase-6 and NHDP Phase-7 construction is going on along with Bharatmala project. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways is set to unveil a plan for constructing 50,000 km of new expressways by 2037 in
1036-473: The entire expressway, out of 8 lanes. It is being developed as an environment-friendly expressway with a tree cover of 20 lakh trees, watered with drip irrigation along the entire stretch with a rainwater harvesting system at every 500 metres. Expressway will be lit using a mix of power supply from state grids and Solar energy . A combined length of 2.5 km of this 8-lane wide expressway will have run under 5 natural-looking wildlife crossings on
1073-779: The expressway due to speed limits set prior to the opening of the expressway. Expressways in India Expressways are the highest class of roads in India. In July 2023, the total length of expressways in India was 5,930 km (3,680 mi), with 11,127.69 km (6,914.43 mi) under construction. These are controlled-access highways designed for high vehicular movement with speed limit of 120 km/h and entrance and exits are controlled by grade separated system interchanges (such as cloverleaf , three-way , trumpet ) whereas National highways are flyover access or tolled , where entrance and exit are done by service interchanges , flyovers are provided to bypass
1110-410: The expressway is 8- lane wide with the greenfield-alignment route in backward areas, which will reduce the current 24 hours travel time to 12 hours. Land for an additional four lanes is reserved in the middle of the road for future expansion, along with the space for utilities , plantation and public transport on both sides. This expressway, along with Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (Western DFC)
1147-761: The first 100 days of the new government.The program, replacing Bharatmala, aligns with Vision 2047 and aims to reduce logistic costs and modernize road infrastructure. Economic Corridors of India or Industrial Corridors of India , 44 corridors 26,200 km (16,300 mi) were identified and 9,000 km (5,600 mi) will be taken up in phase-I, they exclude 6 National Corridors, they include: 66 8,000 km (5,000 mi) inter-corridors (IC) & 116 7,500 km (4,700 mi) feeder routes (FR) were identified for Bharatmala. List of 44 economic corridors (EC): List of operational expressways by state, as of March 2023: (3,466) mi As of April 2021, eight expressways have been declared as National Expressway (NE) by
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1184-420: The project was laid by union minister of Road Transport & Highways Nitin Gadkari in the presence of Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley on 8 March 2019 and it was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi . The total project value including the land acquisition cost is around ₹ 1,00,000 crores (~US$ 13.1 billion). It is expected to be completed by October 2025 . Delhi–Mumbai Expressway connects
1221-517: The stretches identified as the known wildlife corridors between tiger reserves. One of these crossings will be a tunnel in Mukundara Hills National Park , which will be the country's first 8-lane wide tunnel. This will be the first expressway in India to have wildlife crossings. The crossing over the expressway will have 8 meters tall noise barrier walls on either side, and the uncovered stretch of expressway passing through
1258-535: The wildlife corridor will have 6-foot tall walls on both sides of the expressway to prevent animals and pedestrians from entering to minimize the impact of traffic zipping past at speeds up to 120 km/hour . This expressway runs through Aravalli Wildlife corridors especially affecting corridors in four Tiger Reserves of Rajasthan , namely Sariska Tiger Reserve , Mukundara Hills National Park, Ranthambore National Park and Ramgarh Vishdhari Wildlife Sanctuary , all of which are important Tiger reserves of India . There
1295-449: Was completed. The process of upgrading the expressway to six lanes is being done at a cost of ₹ 3300 crore . Toll will be charged at four points - at Ahmedabad, SP Ring Road Ahmedabad, Nadiad, Anand & Vadodara. A summary table of toll rates is as below: In 2004, it was reported that the road surface quality on certain stretches of the expressway was inferior due to the substandard quality of construction materials used. In 2005, it
1332-694: Was opened in 2023, and the widest expressway is the Delhi – Gurgaon section of the Dwarka Expressway with 16 lanes, which was opened in 2024. Greenfield Expressways in India are designed as 12- lane wide Expressways with the initial construction of 8 lanes with maximum speed set as 120 km/h for all type of vehicles. Land for 4-lane future expansion is reserved in the center of the expressways. Greenfield Expressways are designed to avoid inhabited areas and go through new alignments to bring development to new areas and to reduce land acquisition costs and construction timelines. The Delhi–Mumbai Expressway
1369-475: Was reported that a major accident took place on the expressway, resulting in a pileup that involved nine vehicles due to fog. The Ahmedabad - Nadiad stretch is considered the most dangerous, with fatal accidents reported since the opening of the expressway. The expressway has been referred to as not accident-prone when compared to the Mumbai–Pune Expressway . GSRTC buses are known to travel slowly on
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